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> soliciting six murders-for-hire in connection with operating the site This was not proven in court, and at least two federal agents involved in the investiga
by zucker42 4y ago
> soliciting six murders-for-hire in connection with operating the site
This was not proven in court, and at least two federal agents involved in the investigation were found guilty for misconduct related to the investigation, which should at least put doubt on the more salacious elements of the investigation.
The judge took the prosecution's accusation that Ross Ulbricht was responsible for murders-for-hire as truth, and used it to justify a sentence that is cruel and onerous given what he was actually convicted for. In my opinion, that should be considered an unconstitutional violation of due process, since the defense did not get to respond to those accusations as they would in a normal trial. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court refused to hear Ulbricht's appeal, IIRC.
- arcticbull 4y agoYes, Ulbricht's lawyer did a truly awful job and anyone else would have likely gotten him off on procedural grounds. However the evidence that should have been thrown out was pretty clear he tried to order the murder of numerous people. He should 100% be convicted of that and spend many years in prison because you know, we as a society decided somewhere along the way that paying someone to kill people is bad. Fortunately he just got scammed by the hitman haha. Had he actually been competent enough to hire a real hitman there would be a pile of bodies to his name. He's not a good guy lol. He's a bad guy, who should be out on a technicality for the charges he got convicted on - but really would likely spend the rest of his days in prison for the other things he definitely did do. The government simply chose not to pursue those charges because they'd already lined up a slam dunk. Not because they couldn't charge it, just that they had better things to do than smacking a dead horse around.